Fave Movies and Movies You Don't Get

[Peppercorn]

I'm a horror movie fanatic - the bloodier and cheesier, the better. (I do draw a distinction, however, between horror and torture porn. There is too much of the latter being made right now.) A couple of my favorites are The Descent (totally terrifying on multiple levels, badass all-woman cast), Let The Right One In (vampires! Sweden! the 80s!), and REC (an amazing Spanish "found footage" zombie movie).

I love horror too, but despise most torture porn. One that I saw and got really scared by was The Strangers. Maybe because I was watching a harassed-by-killers-at-an-isolated-house movie while alone at an isolated house. (Sort of how the only S. King book that creeped me out was Salem's Lot because I read it in a dark basement.)

Looove The Descent. I'm more of a zombie girl than a vamp fan, but I did like Let the Right One In. Go-to for good scares are the 28 Days movies, Dawn of the Dead (love all things Sarah Polley), War of the Worlds (Cruse doesn't bother me, so I'll probably see Oblivion next week), the Alien movies. Haven't seen REC yet but the American version Quarantine was good (which I saw right after sleeping with a bat, afraid I had rabies...hmm, I'm sensing a theme there...)

Really wish someone would make a good haunted house movie. The Others and What Lies Beneath are the only two decent ones I can think of off-hand.

I like normal movies too. Anything Jane Austen, romantic comedies, Talented Mr. Ripley, Sideways, English Patient, Dan in Real Life. I could go on and on.

I also like the oddball stuff that most people don't get (or just plain dislike). Melancholia was a recent one.

Movies I don't get: anything based on a comic book superhero.

In other words, Netflix does not know what to recommend to me. :D

[Octopuspipodes]

My favorite movie is About a Boy. Love it. I also enjoy the Christopher Guest movies, Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind. I didn't like the other one as much (the name escapes me now). I enjoy some sci-fi, Alien and the sequels. I even like A v P.

Movies I don't get? Anything gangster. Don't like them, I have never seen the Godfather, never seen the Sopranos, I don't even like the Stuff You Missed in History Class podcasts about gangsters.

Funny that you mention Melancholia. I keep watching that in parts and I can't decide if I like it or not, but I keep turning it on.

[Markie]

Movies I love: Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth version), The Princess Bride, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Marigold Hotel, Little Miss Sunshine, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future. I can watch all these movies over and over.

Movies I didn't Get: Twilight Series, Magnolia, Step-Brothers, Borat. Left teh theatre or turned off the tv after about 15 minutes on each of these movies.

[loulou]

I absolutely cannot watch a movie where pets -- especially dogs -- get killed. If I am watching a movie such as Gran Torino, I have to Wikipedia it to read the recap & make sure the dog is OK at the end.

No way would I watch Old Yeller. Ever.

Markie mentioned Borat -- Bruno was even worse. Horrible. I am not a Sascha Baron Cohen fan.

I absolutely LOVED the Hunger Games books & the first movie. Can't wait for Catching Fire (and I'm almost 50!).

Never seen the Twilight movies. Tried to watch the first one, lost interest after about 10 minutes.

Thanks to my husband & sons, I've seen way too many Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler movies. Some are OK, some are just extremely stupid. Big Daddy is one I probably disliked the most.

Another two I loved were Juno and Little Miss Sunshine.

Anyone seen Silver Linings Playbook? I'm thinking about watching on my cable on demand this weekend.

[Mela99]

One of my favorite movies is Orca. It's a 70s flick with Richard Harris, and its about a killer whale who exacts revenge on the fisherman who killed his mate.

It's terrible. It's crappy acting (for shame, Richard Harris), bad dialogue, but it is so terrible that it is a RIOT. I love it.

[longskirtlotsakids]

Anyone seen Silver Linings Playbook? I'm thinking about watching on my cable on demand this weekend.

Yes, I think it's worth the watch for the laughs although the football game scenes can get a little tiresome. I fell in love with Jennifer Lawrence way back from Winter's Bone, however. I liked the movie better than the book, which almost never happens, because the characters in the book were so boring. It does not follow the book at all, rather it is a very loosely based idea.

[AVENues]

Fundraising for an Uncle Ruckus movie? What has this world come to?! After googling and browsing and browsing and googling I'm still not entirely sure if it's a morbidly bad joke or not! http://themovietalkonline.com/wp-conten ... ovie-2.jpg No! No, no no! Donate that 200K to charity! (To underprivileged African Americans that you target with your dumb ass cartoons!)

[pastaswife]

Movies I love: Amelie, Rocky, The Godfather, American Beauty, Brief Encounter, Rebel Without a Cause, the Star Trek 2009 movie

I also have a weird obsession with I Heart Huckabees. I'm not entirely sure I get it, and yet ill watch it any time it's on TV.

I'm also hugely into Nicolas Cage, ill watch anything he's in.

I don't get The Fast and The Furious style car chasing + guns movies.

[Mela99]

The Godfather is the greatest movie of all time.

I watched Django Unchained last night. It was good. Not as good as I had hoped, but Christoph Waltz was awesome.

[AVENues]

There's a part 2 for the Descent. It came out in 2009! Wow. Can't wait.

[canela]

I love movie musicals, mostly older ones (don't get me started on the 2004 ALW's Phantom of the Opera adaptation). I also like movies I find simultaneously cleverly and sweetly romantic. Love Actually is a particular favorite because I have a huge crush on the Jamie character. That movie was particularly full of defrauding men. And I love a good tug at the old heartstrings. Crying during a movie is a wonderful emotional release for me. Thanks Eddie Redmayne for your awesome "Empty Chairs."

I don't get movies where violence and/or gore are the main character(s). Scary is one thing, but bloodbaths and violence for the shock factor don't appeal to me. To each her own.

[AVENues]

I kinda agree with you. Twists, tension, mystery, some! scary scenes are one thing. GORE is another. When it's all gore, insides, blood, screaming, especially it it's sprinkled with sex scenes and other fillers... you know it's gonna suck for a scary movie.

Watching the Descent, part II... Awesome. Dear God who I do not believe in, thank you for this special little treat.

[itaintmebabe]

I also have a weird obsession with I Heart Huckabees. I'm not entirely sure I get it, and yet ill watch it any time it's on TV.

I HEART I Heart Huckabees! It's one of my most favorite movies of the past decade; that and Garden State and Wristcutters: A Love Story.

Older faves are Pulp Fiction, Fargo (anything Coen Brothers, actually), Being John Malkovich, Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Scorcese's King of Comedy, and David Lynch's Twin Peaks (the entire series and movie).

I don't think I ever didn't "get" a movie, just movies that weren't really my cup of tea. I like them with an edge.

[crazyforkate]

The list of movies I love would be longer than the sum total of words on this site, so let's just say it's pretty wild and diverse. I'm up for trying anything once when it comes to film. I'll go with my current obsession, which is Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994), with Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey in their debuts.

Not specific movies, but well - Meryl Streep and I don't click. I can appreciate that she's an excellent actress, but I can't make myself a fan. Strange how life works.

[Jeneric Duggar]

All time favourite movie: Some Like It Hot.

Movies I did not get: Moulin Rouge (I tried, honest); Intolerable Cruelty (felt sadly let down by The Coen Bros there).

Films I hate: anything with Brad Pitt (except Fight Club and Burn After Reading) or Tom Cruise.

Film I hate with the power of a thousand suns: Dogma.

I also cannot watch Dumbo. I start crying as soon as he's born. Nor will I ever be able to watch Les Miserables ever again. That Anne Hathaway, what a bitch. (I'm glad she got the Oscar, though.)

My jury's out on Napoleon Dynamite. The only time I watched it, I was recovering from a pretty bad migraine so I don't know if it was the film or me.

[happy atheist]

I love Moulin Rouge, but agree with you on Intolerable Cruelty. I couldn't even finish that one. :?

[AVENues]

Happy Atheist I've been meaning to write you but I figured you have better things to do, um, if a full length movie is on youtube, um, can we post it here? I mean, I see a lot of songs n stuff. Just because sharing is caring, if it isn't the flu. I just wanted your answer before I do something atrociously dumb again. TY!

[happy atheist]

YouTube links are fine. Thanks for making sure.

[AVENues]

Awesome, thanks :3

[AVENues]

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How about an oldie but goodie for starters. The 6th sense. *quickly downloads it before it vanishes due claims*

[Val78]

Disclaimer in that I'm not into zombies or apocalyptic type stuff. But SO many people I know (educated, middle aged, some even non-zombie folks) liked Warm Bodies. I could only keep thinking wth...

[AVENues]

Disclaimer in that I'm not into monster movies, yet I found the Descent to be one of the best scary movies I've ever seen. Shite happens : ) I also don't like alien or zombie movies.

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[Jeneric Duggar]

Disclaimer in that I'm not into zombies or apocalyptic type stuff. But SO many people I know (educated, middle aged, some even non-zombie folks) liked Warm Bodies. I could only keep thinking wth...

That'll be me, educated, middle aged, and I loved this film. I'm not into zombies, either, but I was on a plane (really) and my daughter had mentioned it so I watched it and was so glad that I had. I don't know how they did it but it's a very sweet film. The boy in it is particularly good.

[EyeQueue]

Disclaimer in that I'm not into monster movies, yet I found the Descent to be one of the best scary movies I've ever seen. Shite happens : ) I also don't like alien or zombie movies.

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This is a great horror movie. They managed to make it very claustrophobic and genuinely creepy. I'm a huge horror movie fan, though. :D

[silversurealism]

I am the biggest fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, especially Captain America and Iron Man. My favorite standalone movie would be Dirty Dancing, has been ever since I was 13 or so. Probably seen it 40 times at least over the years.

I never got why people liked movies like the Saw series. They're just...pointlessly gory.